Sarah and Bristol Palin on Greta Van Tonight
Beings as I saw VP candidate Sarah Palin in Colorado Springs back in September 2009 (see photo as “proof”), I feel a special kinship with the guv.
Anyhoo, the guv’s guy Todd came in 6th on Saturday in the 2,000-mile IronDog race and Greta Van Susteren from Fox was up there in the Great White North to cover the race. Oh hell yes, Greta does sports! She’ll cover that on her show tonight, along with an interview with Bristol (cool name) and baby Tripp. Enjoy it tonight, folks. Tomorrow it’ll be attacked by the sicko lefty bloggers. They’ve got their hate on for Bristol Palin. (cool name by the way.)
So, while I’m waiting for the Greta Hour, here’s an excerpt from a nice interview about family matters with Todd and Sarah Palin from the People magazine interview done by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall in October 2008. It’s far more revealing and interesting than that new Sarah book by another People writer, “Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin” by Lorenzo Benet. Did he even interview Sarah? I think you’ll find this far more enjoyable and “intimate.” :
What’s your favorite family vacations?
TP: To the cabin. Safari Lake. New Year’s Eve.
SP: Up to the cabin, yeah. That’s when all the family gets together and lots of our neighbors from Wasilla, we all pack up the trailers—the snow machine trailers—and head on up about 70 miles north so we can ring in the new year out in the snow, in the great outdoors, and under the Northern Lights. It’s been an absolute beautiful night each night we’ve been out there.
Have you traveled with the kids anywhere in the lower 48?
SP: Yes. Many, many, many times. Yes. Yes. We go to Hawaii often. That’s a good trip for Alaskans because it’s a direct flight down there. We’ve been to California quite a few times. Washington State quite a few times to see relatives.
TP: We enjoy our road trips –
SP: We LOVE road trips.
TP: – driving from Alaska to the lower 48.
SP: Our son a few years ago was playing hockey in Minnesota, and we missed him so much that we jumped in one of our four-door trucks and drove from Alaska to Minnesota so that we could see him for a few hours. It also gave us a good excuse to travel that part of the country with the girls also.
How long a drive is that? A week?
SP: Not the way Todd drives. And Todd never sleeps!
You’re not the first parents to cope with a teenage pregnancy. How did you get that news and what was your reaction?
SP: Just a very quick acknowledgement that Bristol and her fiancé will have to grow up a lot quicker. But she is quite mature, very kind-hearted and a very strong young woman. She’s also kind of an old soul who’s beyond any desire to be out there partying. It will all be good. We look forward to another life coming into our family.
Do you worry about her finishing high school or going to college?
SP: No. She’s a very smart girl. She’s got great grades. She’s always been a very good athlete, very plugged into school. These are less than ideal circumstances, but she is making the most of this and she will be a very, very good and loving mother. And Levi will be a very good father. And it’s going to be good. And certainly, of course, as you point out, we’re not the first.
Has this changed how you talk about sex with your other children?
SP: I’ve always been a proponent of making sure kids understand – even in schools – they’d better take preventative measures so that they don’t find themselves in these less than ideal circumstances. Perhaps Bristol could be a good example to other young women that life happens and preventative measures are, first and foremost, the option that should be considered –
Have you prepared Bristol for the sleeplessness?
SP: She has helped with Trig for these months and she helped with [7-year-old sister] Piper all those years. She’s also been a very good babysitter for nieces and nephews and cousins. She knows what it’s all about. Yeah.
Do you have a favorite childhood book you’ll be passing on to your new grandbaby?
SP: Awww. Gosh. That’s a good question. Piper and I read lots and lots of nursery rhymes, of course, and we still do. There’s a couple of really good Alaskan child books, also, about the Iditarod, the sled-dog race so, in fact a couple of those – and I’m reading one of them to Piper right now – we’ll be passing those on.
Read the full interview at the People magazine website.
